On Friday 26 January 2007 15:14, Craig White wrote: > > I simply want users to be able to write to those directories. I hate > > having to do things as root when it isn't necessary or advisable for > > security. The /mnt/Holding one is the vital one. That was deliberately > > set up with huge amounts of space for this purpose. > > ---- > you might want to consider doing things like this... > > if all 'users' are members of 'users' group > > chgrp users /mnt/Holding -R > chmod g+s /mnt/Holding -R > chmod g+w /mnt/Holding -R > > bear in mind that users with a default umask of 022 will create files > with a 644 and folders with 755 permissions which means that other users > will not be able to 'write' into those directories or over those files. > If I chgrp and chmod, wouldn't that last for one session only? IOW - Wouldn't it be overwritten when I boot up tomorrow? Anne
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